Appalachian School of Law Shootings http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian
News Stories in the week after the Appalachian School of Law ShootingsenDaily Press (Newport News, VA)http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/18#102
<p><span class="normal">Law school dean L. Anthony Sutin, slain in his office during a campus shooting rampage, was a highly successful lawyer who left a career in the halls of power to deliver better legal services to the poor of Appalachia.</span></p>
<p><span class="normal">He came to tiny Grundy in the coalfields of southwestern Virginia in 1999 to become dean of the Appalachian School of Law, a private school established two years earlier.</span></p>
<p><span class="normal">A student angry over flunking out ended Sutin&#8217;s life Wednesday with a gunshot to the head, authorities said. A professor and student also were slain, and three students were wounded.</span></p>
<p><span class="normal">Sutin served in the Clinton administration as acting assistant attorney general for legislative affairs under former Attorney General Janet Reno.</span></p>
<p><span class="normal">&#8220;I lost not only a former colleague, but a friend,&#8221; Reno said in a statement. &#8220;Tony was an incredibly kind, exceptionally bright, and intensely dedicated public servant who was committed to bettering the welfare of all Americans.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span class="normal">Before joining the Justice Department, Sutin, 42, was a partner in the Washington law firm of Hogan & Hartson. While at the firm, he represented the Democratic National Committee, the Clinton-Gore 1992 campaign and the Paul Tsongas for President campaign.</span></p>
<p><span class="normal">Sandy Mayo, a colleague at Hogan & Hartson, said the Harvard Law School graduate could have continued his career in Washington if he had wanted.</span></p>
<p><span class="normal">Sutin told The Roanoke Times last April that he had found in Grundy the old-fashioned virtues of life, such as knowing all your neighbors and being able to leave your doors unlocked.</span></p>
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